Hey friends and welcome to Nomadic Dmitry channel. I've already made a video about OS/2 and eComStationand what was my motivation to try this kind of operating systemsAnd I also wanted to try ArcaOS since it's the most recent version of OSI asked ArcaOS developers and haven't got a response for a few months But I finally was able to get response from them and installed this Operating System to try it outToday we are going to try it on the Virtual Machine and see how it looks in actionFirst, I've prepared a Virtual Machine to install it thereLet's start the installation. The screen resolution is not great here, but it's okay for nowFirst we select the boot options here and then it shows the license info (which you don't see, since I've hidden it)Each copy of ArcaOS is licensed only for a specific user. This is an IBM policy starting from OS/2 timesAnd there is nothing we can do about itpolicy and that's how it works there's no way  around. Let's pick the default options hereLicense agreement part. You need to scroll down there to be able to accept the licenseIt also displays here that there are Personal and Commercial editionsI have the personal edition here and I'm pressing "Next"There we have multiple installation types - do you remember how many install options we have before for older operating systems?And this is technically still an OS/2, so it has this legacy approach as wellNext, we are selecting a target volume. And there is a bit confusing part because the wizard is not very helpfulSo there is nothing in the list and we need to manually create a partition, make it bootable and format itLet's save the changes and see how it works nowWe will select JFS as a File System hereLet's enable some options thereNow we need to configure all the hardware options hereManually picking all the stuff here is necessary, no automatic detectionI selected the Universal Audio driver (but I should have been selected SoundBlaster 16 since this is what Virtual Box set by default for me here)There is also system profiles which you can select either a modern system profile here or a vintage systemI just pick whatever adapter is available hereThen I pick the username and Computer name hereFinally an installation part where is will start copying filesThis remind me of Windows 95 or Windows 98 installation, but the wizard here is not advertising anythingTypically it describes what's new in the operating system and things like thatIt mostly feels like an eComStation kind of installer, but a bit improvedThere are many options for computer enthusiasts which might be good and bad at the same timeMemorizing your hardware configurations doesn't sound appealingOkay, here is an ArcaOS logo and installation continuescreating objects and again this is just  so similar to windows kind of installation  copying files again just continues copying  the whole stuff like early versions of windowsGood to know that Firefox is shipped by default with ArcaOS and you can browser modern websites with itThis is one of the benefits of installing ArcaOS instead of eComStation or OS/2 because it already has everythingfor you to start using it. It still feels maintained and this is great.It also has Thunderbird mail thereIt installs Windows 32 compatibility layer here which is called ODINThis is important addition here and I think many users will like itI should be able to install some of the Windows 32-bit applications hereIt makes it feel like a modern system. It also includes QT Runtime librariesAlso includes Lucid document viewerI hope this is a final phaseNow I'm rebooting system one more timeThere is a config.sys complaining here since one of the drivers is invalid (or missing) and that is the part I didn't liked in Windows 95/98 systemsEverything finally loaded and the next step will be configuring everythingWe will discuss it in the next videos about ArcaOS and OS/2Let's start Firefox - it loads but with delay and it's confusingFirefox 45 ESR is the version of Firefox (which is from 2016 and it means it's quite old too)The buttons don't feel intuitive, but this is the case with using OS/2 in generalIt loads modern websites as you can seeOverall, it looks very similar to eComStation, but with updated drivers and additional apps includedI didn't expected a new OS here, but I still expected it to be a little bit more updated for the modern timesThere should be an automatic driver configuration option, but there is none so farThank you for watching and please subscribe for new videos. More videos coming up soon!In the next video we will play around with the ArcaOS moreIt has the potential to become a great operating system if there was more attention to itThank you, friends!